Ok, I'm now knee deep in the middle of this gasket job. It's taken me about two hours to get everything torn apart. I can't remove the fuel inj. lines as stated in another post. And if your reading this and you know how to get those puppies out of the feed/return lines...please give a brother a hint. I ripped the pwr. steering out once I figured out what was holding it.
Now on to the good stuff. I at least expected some resistance when loosening the intake bolts. There was nothing. We're talking the intake bolts, not the upper plenum bolts. In fact if those bolts were that loose on any other part of the car...you would want to tighten them. Loose as a goose. In danger of falling out, not really but you get my point.
So my thought is, what if I bought these things up to spec? Would the leak stop? I don't think I'm gonna find out since I'm this far. And it's no wonder the bolts weren't torqued correctly since you can't even get a dang wrench on em enough to move them. I gonna have to expand my tool crib just to work on this thing.
I think the torque spec on the intake bolts in 115 in lbs. I really need to know if this right or not. Now my torque wrench is in ft. lbs. I think I did the math right but I believe I need to torque the intake bolts down to 115 in lbs. which divided by 12 is 9.5 ft lbs. Am I right on this or did I miss the boat.
Many thanks for your help thus far. I couldn't have done it without your help. So please help me get her back together.